The Historian · Martín · Madrid
Lavapiés
No barrio holds more of the city's social history. Medieval Jewish quarter, 19th-century working slum, today's migrant heart — all readable in the same steep streets.
The old quarter of working Madrid — once the Jewish and then the castizo manolo district, now the city's most immigrant and political neighbourhood. Layer on layer of who Madrid has been.
— Martín, The Historian
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